Wolf Blitzer looks at politics, breaking news and international stories. Trump Campaign Manager facing off against the Russia Investigation special counsel robert mueller. You cannot understate just how big this is, no matter which way it goes. On one hand, if, for example, mr. Manafort is found guilty, that makes it a real problem for the president of the United States to continue to call this a witch hunt. Now, what about this case . We have 18 charges in the indictment, Something Like three dozen witnesses. The former partner of Paul Manafort, rick gates, could testify. The trial could last up to three weeks. At the end of the day, though, a big deal for Paul Manafort himself, who was a huge power broker in washington, d. C. He has another trial scheduled later this year, wolf. And theyre accusing him of taking about 60 million from prorussian politicians in
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possibility that there might be violence in washington? i don t remember. now ultimately, it will be up to georgia s secretary of state, republican brad raffensperger to weigh the judge s recommendation and decide if greene should be banned from the ballot. joining me is cnn editor at large and politics reporter chris solizza. so based on raffensperger s action in the past, what s the outcome for greene and trump in the state? i think it s important we separate out what raffensperger did in 2020 and what we re talking about here. in 2020, the question was donald trump calling brad raffensperger and saying, i need you to find effectively 11,000 votes so i can win the state. raffensperger refused. that s why donald trump has endorsed a congress person running against raffensperger. that was raffensperger standing up to donald trump s unlawful attempt to overturn the election results in georgia. this is a lot more unclear legal
the book we re all waiting for, bob woodward, my colleague at the washington post. legend of water gate. he s written lots and lots of books on presidents, eight at last count. fear: trump in the white house. bob has not offered thoughts on the upcoming book but he did offer a thought on bob in 2013. only on twitter, only the obama white house can get away with attacking bob woodward. they weren t really attacking bob woodward. it was sort of a misunderstanding, but that s here nor there. fear, let s see, is it pro? it is donald trump like it, positive or negative review? i m going on the negative review side is my guess, but we ll see. we have another month or so, wolf. back to you. september 11th. we ll all have a chance. chris solizza, good review. more on the breaking news. facebook discovering dozens of new fake accounts ahead of the midterm elections here in the united states which may be linked to the russians. we have new details, standby.
multination deal. so what is the president s new strategy on iran? let s bring back chris solizza and bring in aaron david millar. it is so great to have you and your brain with us this morning. you too, solizza. good to have you too. that s the point. yeah, yeah, thanks. aaron, what is the strategy? what is president trump trying to achieve here? i think that was a way to split the difference between a president driven by his own personal version of having to certify his own politics, that this is the worst deal in human history and to satisfy his base on one hand with i guess you could argue the adults, tillerson and mattis, who were looking for a way to ensure that the president at least now would not walk away. so they came with this very clever strategy on not
husband, their loved ones. the scope of the human loss is so much that i think a lot of people are trying to compartmentalize it. otherwise, it is so devastating. we will stepped the program talking about if people are feeling resigned to this or if there s anything that our leaders can-can do. so we are going to talk about all of that. chris, we will be back with you very shortly. meanwhile, president trump is heading to las vegas in the next hour to meet with these victims and the heroes there. how will he address all of these questions? does he see any answer here? a live report next.